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Well you have to try and be more specific. Are you looking for an Ad Server or an Ad Serving script? Or are you asking how to insert banner images into your web pages. I am not sure what you mean by spider.

Re : Spider

I mean an Ad serving Script, i saw it with webzip(the software that downloads websites) and each page i downloaded a special webzip banner was placed on the page, is there a way that i can do that, to save me the tedious task of copying and pasting the code(Ad Serving Script) everytime i create a webpage.

Dream Weaver 4.0

Hi, i use Dream Weaver but is there a way that i can make a code be automatically inserted into my page each time i upload to the server? Is it a CGI Script that i need to install?
for eg. when homepage.com had its days of glory, each page you uploaded had an Altavista Banner.

Let me see if I understand this right. You have an existing page(s) that you have already created and each time you upload to the server, you want a new banner inserted into the page?

I was thinking that you were creating new pages from scratch. If you are building them from scratch, you can create a template in Dreamweaver with the code built in. Then you just create all of your new pages from that template.

If you want new code inserted into existing pages each time you upload, I am afraid that I can't help you . I don't know how to do that.

It would require some rather pain in the butt server side processing... You would need to upload the code through the browser and the SSA (server side app) would take a look, see if it matches certain criteria and if it does insert your code... I think this is more tedious then it is worth for you.

exactly

you have it. All of the above and even for pages that have not yet been uploaded. How do i get the banner to appear into the page after i upload? eg. When you upload to the former homepage.com "yourname.hoempage.com" there is a banner in your page by default. How do they do it?

The system that i use

I use http://www.adrotator.com they have nice tools such as setting percentage and expiration dates etc. But lets say i gave someone a sub-site on my domain, with their own ftp login to upload data. How can i activate my adserver script on their webpages automatically without them having to copy and paste the code each time they build and upload a webpage

let me show you what i mean

when i downloaded this software called webzip(it allows me to download a whole website into a .zip file) i used it to make a copy of an old site i had which i needed on my hard drive, but at the end of the download and i was in the process of editing i saw this code:

Thats what the ASP AdRotator component does. You insert the script and it reads the code from a text file. You can specify your ad (or multiple ads) and links in that text file.

You can use a SSI (server side include) to manage the code, but how you can get it into their page without copying and pasting on their part, I am not sure of.

I guess if they are using a web based form to create their pages, you can run a script to insert the code when the form is submitted. That may be the easiest way I can think of o do what you are asking. If they are uploading via FTP, then I dont know how to accomplish what you are asking.

As I said earlier, it requires a specifically programmed server side component. It isn't part of site server, adrotator doesn't cover it.

If it helps, my company can do it for you, but I've already explained as much as I can. Simply put, it inserts the necessary code at the beginning of the file, or, more intelligently, at the appropriate place in the file (<head> or whatever).